Red Hat, Inc. A well known local
company which "is a market leader in open source operating system (OS)
software, services and information. Along with its award-winning open
source Red Hat Linux OS, Red Hat offers a full line of services,
including telephone support, on-site consulting, developer training,
certification programs and priority access updates ..." An
interesting view of RedHat's business model.

Tao Linux "is one of several
projects to build a free Linux distribution from the sources used in the
Red Hat Enterprise product line." Apparently Discontinued

Linux From Scratch
"LinuxFromScratch is a project aimed at teaching the reader more about
the inner workings of Linux. It's intended for those seeking to learn
more about how Linux works and how the various pieces of the Operating
System fit together and interact."

Linux Enterprise Computing a
survey of "Linux in a corporate, commercial enterprise setting from a
programmers' or technicians' perspective." many examples and links

Buildkernel
"The buildkernel script is an intelligent tool that will build a new
linux kernel for you. It is designed to be easy so that a
novice can use it. At the same time, it is flexible and powerful enough
that it can be useful for experienced users."

Linux Standard Base
"Standardizing the Penguin" "We strive
to develop and promote a set of standards that will increase
compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications
to run on any compliant Linux system. In addition, the LSB will help
coordinate efforts to recruit software vendors to port and write
products for Linux." Will have a standard for desktops.

Open Source Research Team
(OSoRT) at UNC-CH's MetaLab. "The UNC Open Source Research Team is
particularly interested in understanding and aiding the Open Source
communities by quantitative studies of content contributions and
contributors, by experimental advanced distribution of Open Source
resources, by maintaining and managing Open Source archives, by
enhancing searching and retrieval of archived resources, by designing
and implementing metadata standards for documentation searching and
retrieval, by hosting of Open Source projects, and by mirroring and
distributing Open Source resources."

United Linux "is a
standards-based Linux operating system targeted at the business user. It
is developed, marketed and sold by an experienced partnership of Linux
companies."

Linux.com "A Means to World
Liberation" Tutorials, articles and news about Linux.

Open Source Development Lab "is a
non-profit resource lab for open source developers that provides
equipment and infrastructure to large-scale Linux enabling technology
projects to support enterprise and telecom applications."

yum Yellow dog
Updater, Modified "Yum is an automatic updater and package
installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes
dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install
packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without
having to manually update each one using rpm."

CentOS The Community
ENTerprise OS - "is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from
sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American
Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream
vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible.
(CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and
artwork.) CentOS is free, however, we ask for a small contribution."

LinuxVM (Linux for Big Iron) "is
the official home of the Linux/VM project. The purpose of the project is
to provide a central source of Linux/390 information and software, and
to explore the possibilities of Linux and CP integration or
interoperation." Also see the
many links on this
topic.

Linux on the System/390 "a general overview of the Linux port to the
IBM System/390 mainframe architecture." by Adam Thornton

The
Unix Archive run by The Unix Heritage Society. A number of mirror
sites are presented.
Much of this material (pre-System III, V) is available
under a
"
fee free licence that includes the rights use, modify and
distribute this named source code, including derived binary products
created from the source code."

Open Solaris from SUN
Microsystems. "The Solaris operating system is being released under the
terms of the OSI-approved, Common Development and Distribution License
(CDDL)" as part of Sun's
"open source strategy"

Darwin "Darwin is a
complete operating system based on the foundation technologies in Mac OS
X Server. It is an advanced BSD Unix system which offers advanced
networking, services such as the Apache web server, and support for both
Macintosh and Unix filesystems. Darwin runs on PowerPC-based Macintosh
computers."

Croquet Project "Croquet is
a computer software architecture built from the ground up with a focus
on deep collaboration between teams of users. It is a totally open,
totally free, highly portable extension to the Squeak programming
system. Croquet is a complete development and delivery platform for
doing real collaborative work. There is no distinction between the user
environment and the development environment. Croquet is focused on
interactions inside of a 3D shared space that is used for context based
collaboration, where each user can see all of the others and what their
current focus is. This allows for an extremely compelling shared
experience. ..." (quoted from a Whitepaper at that site by Smith, et
al)

Open
Source for the Enterprise by Dan Woods and Gautam guliana. "a top
to bottom view not only of the technology, but of the skills required to
manage it and the organizational issues that must be addressed."

Gimp-Savvy.com "seeks to
provide high-level educational and practical resources for the Gnu Image
Manipulation Program, a.k.a. the GIMP, and to promote its skillful and
knowledgeable use."

Google
and Libraries join "to Digitally Scan Library Books and Make Them
Searchable Online" This has been controversial because of plans to
include, without permission, material protected by copyright.

Internet Archive "is building
a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in
digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to
researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."

Open Content
Alliance (OCA) "represents the collaborative efforts of a group of
cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from
around the world that will help build a permanent archive of
multilingual digitized text and multimedia content."

The GNU Project of The Free
Software Foundation. A large amount of open source software (too big to
list here) available under the GNU General Public License
(GPL) which is often used for Open Source Software. I will mention
that gcc is the standard open source compiler. It also can be used as a
cross-compiler.

Source Forge "SourceForge.net
is the world's largest Open Source software development website, with
the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on
the Internet. SourceForge.net provides free services to Open Source
developers."

GitHub "GitHub is the best place
to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete
strangers. Over two million people use GitHub to build amazing things
together."

Developer Central at SGI, "In the
words of Kurt Akeley, Senior Vice President, Chief Technical Officer,
and co-founder, Silicon Graphics, ``The open source software model is
the future of software development. This fast-developing community of
talented and committed engineers is eager to work to create higher
levels of technology.''
This site, oss.sgi.com, is our repository for open source. It is running
on an SGI system with a 100% open source content as a proof that open
source not only works better, but is also ready for prime time in
production settings. We encourage everyone to download and try our
software, and invite external parties to get involved by sending
feedback to the respective maintainers and in case they are really
serious, to get write access to source tree. This software is available
as open source for the benefit of all of us."

ClamAV "anti-virus tookit for
UNIX" to be integrated with mail servers

Linux related

Freshmeat.net a lot of
information about applications running under Linux. Searchable and also
available as a newsletter.

Simple End User Linux "SEUL is a
volunteer project to help Linux become an operating system that the
average user can install and operate easily. Currently SEUL is working
on the non-technical aspects of bringing Linux to end-users -- Linux in
education, advocacy documents, managing and coordinating communications
between projects, coordinating feedback from end-users, and hosting
related development projects."

The Linux Lab
"project is intended to help people with development of data collection
and process control software for LINUX. It should be in understood as
software and knowledge pool for interested people and application
developers dealing with this stuff in educational or industrial
environment."

Eazel "intends to help make
Linux the desktop of choice for millions of people. To achieve this, we
are creating next generation user interface software and services
designed to make Linux easier to use."

SAS
System for Linux This is not open source, but is designed to run on
RedHat 6.2 on the Intel platform.

Creative Open Souce
source code of Linux Soundblaster Live, other drivers, and other audio
projects.

NILFS "New Implementation of a
Log-structured File System ... developed for the Linux kernel 2.6." "A
log-structured file system has the characteristic that all file system
data including metadata is written in a log-like format."

HyperNews.org An Open Source
"threaded discussion list" or "forum" for the Web.

Graphics

the GIMP "The GIMP is the GNU
Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software
suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image
authoring." Available for Linux, Unix, Mac OSX and Windows.

Also see Gimp-savvy.com in the Books section.

Paint.NET " is free image and
photo editing software for PCs that run Windows."

VLC media player
"is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video
formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, as well as numerous
others) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can
also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or
IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network."

Version Control Software
"CVS is
the Concurrent Versions System, the dominant open-source
network-transparent version control system. CVS is useful for everyone
from individual developers to large, distributed teams:"

Version Control Software
"The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system
that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community."

'WebDAV stands for "Web-based
Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the
HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage
files on remote web servers.'

"CollabNet provides platforms and
services based on open source tools and principles"

Rexx - IBM withdrew Object Rexx
from marketing, and transferred Object Rexx OORexx to the control of RexxLA as an Open Source project.
This is supposed to handle both classic REXX format and the object
format.

OpenJDK "collaborate on the
open-source JDK, an implementation of the Java Platform"

Open Source
Projects at Apple - Overview.
Project Descriptions
"Apple is the first major computer company to make open source
development a key part of its ongoing software strategy. This allows
Apple to partner with external developers to create richer, faster and
more reliable products for our users through open source development."

on MyLibrary development and the development of personalized
library interfaces. Some
Information is available. --
A description
, or search for mylibrary and Eric Lease Morgan.

DSpace a digital
repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual
output of MIT - source is Java for Unix (theoretically will run on
anything) and is available under the BSD distribution license.

From U. of Virginia
Library and Cornell. Distributed under the Mozilla Public License.

Greenstone "is a suite of
software for building and distributing digital library collections."
from the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato
and is available under the GNU GPL.

Greenstone
"is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library
collections." Distributed under the GPL.

VuFind "is a library resource
portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of
VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your
library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC"

FreeS/WAN "Linux
FreeS/WAN is an implementation of IPSEC ... IPSEC is Internet Protocol
SECurity. It uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and
encryption services." S/WAN is the Secure Wide Area Network Project.

Twofish A New
Block Cipher. "is counterpane Lab's candidate for the New Advanced
Encryption Standard (AES). It is one of the five finalists chosen by
NIST from a field of 15 candidates. Twofish is unpatented, and the
source code is uncopyrighted and license-free; it is free for all
uses."

"Chandler" (scheduled for release at the end of 2004) from the Open
Source Applications Foundation founded by Mitch Kapor. Chandler is
to include e-mail, calendar, contacts, todo list and instant messaging
capabilities.

Portal - XOOPS "is a dynamic OO (Object
Oriented) based open source portal script written in PHP. XOOPS is the
ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites,
intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs, ..."

E-Commerce - osCommerce "an
online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open
source community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows
store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with
minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved."

"Brackets "isn't ready
for general use yet. It's still early in development, is missing a lot
of basic editor features, and probably has bugs. That said, we've
actually been using Brackets to develop Brackets for awhile now, so
what's there is reasonably stable." WYSIWYG

KompoZer "last stable release was
in 2007, and the last Beta (development version) was released in
February 2010." WYSIWYG

BlueGriffon "is a new WYSIWYG
content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering
engine of Firefox, it's a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages
in conformance to the latest Web Standards. WYSIWYG Available on
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Amaya "is a Web editor, i.e. a tool
used to create and update documents directly on the Web." WYSIWYG

OpenAFS "AFS is a distributed
filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and
supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM
Transarc Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing,
providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration
capabilities for data."

Linux Virtual Server
Project The Linux Virtual Server is a highly scalable and highly
available server built on a cluster of real servers, with the load
balancer running on the Linux operating system. The architecture of the
cluster is transparent to end users.

The Apache Software Foundation
Best known for its Open Source web server, "Apache has been the most
popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The May 1999 WWW
server site survey by Netcraft found that over 57% of the web sites on
the Internet are using Apache (over 60% if Apache derivatives are
included), thus making it more widely used than all other web servers
combined."
"The Apache Software Foundation exists to provide organizational, legal,
and financial support for the Apache open-source software projects.
Formerly known as the Apache Group, the Foundation has been incorporated
as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation in order to ensure
that the Apache projects continue to exist beyond the participation of
individual volunteers, to enable contributions of intellectual property
and funds on a sound basis, and to provide a vehicle for limiting legal
exposure while participating in open-source software projects."

OpenSSL Project "The OpenSSL
Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade,
full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as
well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library."

W3C Open Source Releases at
the World Wide Web Consortium, "The natural compliment to W3C
specifications is running code. Implementation and testing is an
essential part of specification development and releasing the code
promotes exchange of ideas in the developer community. All W3C software
is Open Source; see the license for details. Note that this license is
GPL compatible, i.e. it is possible to redistribute software based on
W3C sources under a GPL license."

Much more information about Web standards, etc. is available at the
World Wide Web Consortium - W3C

Hypertext Preprocessor "PHP is a
tool that lets you create dynamic web pages. PHP-enabled web pages are
treated just like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit them
the same way you normally create regular HTML pages." (It's a
server-side scripting language.)

The Annotated XML
Specification "The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of
SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to
enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in
the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease
of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML."

JA-SIG The Java in
Administration Special Interest Group (JA-SIG) is an independent
organization designed to increase the flow of information between
educational institutions and companies involved in the development of
administrative applications using Java technology. The JA-SIG
uPortal
Project is to produce "a free, sharable portal for institutions of
higher-education." A Whitepaper
by Bernard W. Gleason discusses Portal issues and recommendations.

SteelBlue "is an
open-source Web application server environment in which Web-database
applications can be developed completely in an extended HTML language.
Similar to ColdFusion and Story Server, session and user-associated data
as well as SQL commands can be directly embedded into the HTML page.
Therefore, no CGI programming experience is required to develop
applications with SteelBlue, only knowledge of SQL and HTML."

"Light Literature; such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the
Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc.

Heavy Literature; such as the Bible or other religious documents,
Shakespeare, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, etc.

References; such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, and a set of
encyclopedia, dictionaries, etc."

The Harvey Project "An
international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians,
students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists
working together to build a highly interactive human physiology course
on the Web. Materials produced by the Harvey Project will be made freely
available to any educational institution." It is migrating to
OpenCourse.org which is "a free
collaboration platform for educators."

by Robert
Stephenson An unpublished proposal to create an umbrella
organization to promote and facilitate open course collaborations

The Open Science Project
"is dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific
software. We are a group of scientists, mathematicians and engineers who
want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be
pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the
natural world."

Softpanorama:
(slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society. "The
mission of Softpanorama Open Source University is to provide a
educational materials to schools and universities to serve as a source
for the independent study of OSS in both Linux and Windows environments
and this way extend the frontiers of the use of the open source
software."

OpenCourseWare Consortium
"a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and
associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep
body of open educational content using a shared model."

MERLOT II "is a free and open
peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and
faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international
education community."

Open Courseware Laboratory
"founded at North Carolina State University in 1998 by Professor Michael
Rappa. The mission of the Lab is to promote the open exchange of
knowledge within the academic community via the Internet."
Also see OpenSeminar

The Open Library "website
was created by the Internet
Archive to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online.
The vision is to create free web access to important book collections
from around the world." The Internet Archive is a member of the Open Content Alliance.

Google's Book Search Beta
version. "Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you
and learn where to buy or borrow them." Controversial because many books
under copyright are included, although full text is provided only for
out of copyright books.

Science Commons "Our goal
is to encourage stakeholders to create areas of free access and inquiry
using standardized licenses and other means; a 'Science Commons' built
out of voluntary private agreements."

Baen's Free Library The
noted Science Fiction publisher, Baen's Books, has a significant number
of its books available on the web - free. The philosophy behind this action of
a commercial publisher and the authors is interesting.

Open Textbook
Catalog "Open textbooks are complete textbooks released under a
Creative Commons, or similar, license." and this project includes having
these textbooks reviewed by faculty.

OpenStax College "offers
students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for
most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional
content developers." (Based at Rice Univ., there may be relationship
with Connexions.)

PLoS "The Public Library of Science
(PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians
committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a
freely available public resource." It publishes 5 journals.Discussion
with Harold Varmus Nobel Laureate and cofounder of PLoS.

OJS "Open Journal Systems
(OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been
developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its [Canadian]
federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research."

The facts
about Open Access "A study of the financial and non-financial
effects of alternative business models for scholarly journals" from the
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. The complete
report can be downloaded at no charge.

Moodle modular object-oriented
dynamic learning environment - "Moodle is a software package for
producing internet-based courses and web sites" and "is an ongoing
research and development project designed to support a social
constructionist pedagogy for students, teachers and developers."
Release 2.5 is current as of October 2013. This site includes some
demonstration courses. Commercial
support is available.
An interesting development with respect to commercial support is the
acquisition
of two of the leading Moodle support providers by
Blackboard, the leading commercial LMS provider.

The Open
Knowledge Initiative (OKI) The result of this collaboration is an
open and extensible architecture that specifies how the components of an
educational software environment communicate with each other and with
other enterprise systems. O.K.I. provides a modular development platform
for building both traditional and innovative applications while
leveraging existing and future infrastructure technologies.

CHEF Initiative
The CompreHensive collaborativE Framework (CHEF) initiative
has as its goal, the development of a flexible environment for
supporting distance learning and collaborative work, and doing research
on distance learning and collaborative work. ... working closely with
and are contributing to the OKI reference architecture, and are
collaborating with other groups interested in open source collaboration
standards." It is being used in the

OpenSeminar "OpenSeminar is an
open courseware platform that enables professors from different
universities to work collaboratively to create an online seminar and
then customize it to the needs of their own students." (or they could be
on the same campus :-)

ATutor "is an Open Source
Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with
accessibility and adaptability in mind. ..."

Blackboard's new broad U.S. Patent No. 6,988,138 has caused
considerable concern in the Open Source Learning Management System community.
Educause took a strong position emphasizing their
concerns in
an Oct. 2006 letter. Blackboard, on Feb. 1, 2007 announced a
non-assertion patent
pledge with respect to "open source software or home-grown course
management systems" which are not bundled with proprietary software.
(This link has links to the patent and much other material.)
Educause's response is
positive with strong reservations.

"Just as the end of the 19th century was marked by the
genesis of industrial production methods, the end of the 20th century
has seen the equally revolutionary open source methods just begin to
generate steam. What does the future hold for open source? The answer is
up for grabs, but in an attempt to provide a forecast, Wide Open News
put that question to an array of luminaries looking to the horizon. Big
thinkers like historian George Dyson and futurist Paul Saffo tell us why
open source is not so new, the hurdles it faces in the future, and
more." (quoted from the former WideOpen magazine)

European working group on libre
[Open Source] software "The working group on libre software was created at the
initiative of the Information Society Directorate General, with the
purpose to analyze the free software phenomenon, create a set of
recommendations for the Community and create a paper to be presented to
the Commission. The group featured both people from the Commission and
representative members from the EU countries.

After several meeting, the group finalized a paper, edited by Carlo
Daffara and Jeszs M. Gonzalez-Barahona and presented at the IST'99
conference in Helsinki, during the special session track on libre
software. The 1.0 version (work-in-progress) of the paper is available
for download ..." (see Abstract)

The Case for Government Promotion of Open Source
Software A NetAction White Paper by Mitch Stolz. "An alternative
method of software development, called open source software, creates
robust, secure software through a process of widespread peer review.
This paper explains the open source concept and attempts to show how
government can use open source as a vehicle for promoting economic
development and as a policy tool which could assist the Justice
Department in its antitrust action against Microsoft." Definitions,
history, recommendations and links.

OpenSource.org The Open
Source Initiative" is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and
promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community".
Links to many discussions and presentations.

open source IT "info on
software tools and products in the open source arena" and other news and
discussion.

The
Internet Under Siege by Lawrence Lessig "Who owns the Internet?
Until recently, nobody. That's because, although the Internet was "Made
in the U.S.A.," its unique design transformed it into a resource for
innovation that anyone in the world could use. Today, however, courts
and corporations are attempting to wall off portions of cyberspace. In
so doing, they are destroying the Internet's potential to foster
democracy and economic growth worldwide."

Free Culture by Lawrence
Lessig "consider[s] the diminishment of the larger public domain of
ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted
interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning
the ecosystem that fosters innovation." This book is available in
print, and as a free download under a Creative Commons licens. An
audio version is
available.

Mandating Open
Source an "Open Source Software" bill in Oregon "would mandate that
any state government agency consider open-source software for all new
software acquisitions and make purchasing decisions based on a
"value-for-money basis." Moreover, under the act, state workers would
have to avoid buying products that don't comply with open standards."

The Art of
Unix Programming by Eric Steven Raymond. (The paper edition is
available from Amazon, among other sellers.) (From the Preface: This
book has a lot of knowledge in it, but it is mainly about expertise. It
is going to try to teach you the things about Unix development that
Unix experts know, but aren't aware that they know. It is therefore less
about technicalia and more about shared culture than most Unix
books - both explicit and implicit culture, both conscious and
unconscious traditions. It is not a `how-to' book, it is a `why-to'
book.) While the topic of this book isn't Open Source, it does deal
extensively with the culture of Open Source, which is not strange since
much of the Open Source movement has come from the Unix community.

Eric Steven Raymond's Home
Page The personal site of a maintainer of "quite a lot of
open-source software, FAQs, and HTML documents" and the author of "The
Cathedral and the Bazaar" This is his "analysis of how and why the Linux
development model works"

TUX "Tux.Org, Incorporated is a
nonprofit organization providing resources for the development, support,
and education needs of openly developed software." (many links)

OASIS "the Organization for
the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, is a nonprofit,
international consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of
product-independent formats based on public standards. These standards
include SGML, XML, HTML and CGM as well as others that are related to
structured information processing. Members of OASIS are providers, users
and specialists of the technologies that make these standards work in
practice."

Software in the Public Interest,
Inc. "a non-profit organization which was founded to help
organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. We
encourage programmers to use any license that allows for the free
modification, redistribution and use of software, and hardware
developers to distribute documentation that will allow device drivers to
be written for their product."

The
UNIX Philosophy by Mike Gancarz. Not technical. The same author
wrote "Linux and the UNIX Philosophy" later.

Eben Moglen articles.
He is General Counsel, Free Software Foundation and Prof. of Law at
Columbia U., and a number of his articles are about open source and
related topics. He has a blog.

He has led the founding and now is the Chairman of the Board of
the Software Freedom Law
Center (SFLC) which "provides legal representation and other
law related services to protect and advance FOSS." (Free and Open
Source Software)

Is
Free Software the Wave of the Future? by David S. Evans in the
Milken Institute Review. An economic analysis of open source vs.
proprietary software. (Click on the story in the index, and then a
(free) login is required.)

Public money, private code The drive to license academic research
for profit is stifling the spread of software that could be of universal
benefit.

Open
Source in Peru whether or not this letter is bogus, it raises many
interesting points for discussion.

Open
Source 2007: How Did This Happen? by Brad Wheeler in Educause Review
"Developing sustainable economics and advancing the frontiers of
innovation are the dual challenges for application software in higher
education."

Achieving
CAPP/EAL3+ Security Certification for Linux "As far as we know, no
Open Source program has been certified for securityuntil now. Al-though
some people believed that it was not possible for an Open Source program
to re-ceive a security certification, we have proven otherwise by
obtaining a Common Criteria se-curity certification for SuSE SLES 8
SP3." (The enterprise marketplace considers this certification to be
somewhat important - but there are some ease-of-use hits.)

The
Next Wave: Liberation Technology by John M. Unsworth. "In
everything from course management to big enterprise systems,
universities must choose between monopolies and the open approach" An
excellent discussion of the history and current status of the open
source movement - emphasizing software relevant to higher education.

Linux
Inc. BusinessWeek Online story about Linux Torvalds and how he has
changed his leadership of Linux development over the past five years,
and about the relationships with the corporate world.

Righting
Copyright Fair use and "digital environmentalism" by Robert S.
Boynton. Copyright has been grabbing more and more rights of the public,
and this trend is now being opposed by the new "digital environmentalists".

PRISM
a coalition working to protect publishers from possible Federal mandates
that would require NIH-funded research results to be made openly
available in PubMed within 12 months of publication. This is claimed to
be "putting at risk the integrity of scientific research".

"Ghostscript
License"" It appears that the latest version (of
Ghostscript) is payware, but after a time the older versions are
released under the GPL or the AFPL (Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License).

Aladdin Free
Public License "This License is not the same as any of the GNU
Licenses published by the Free Software Foundation. Its terms are
substantially different from those of the GNU Licenses. If you are
familiar with the GNU Licenses, please read this license with extra
care." ... "This License is not an Open Source license: among other
things, it places restrictions on distribution of the Program, ..."

A
Question of Licenses Lawrence Rosen's Geek Law column about choosing
the appropriate Open Source License, "What drives the license selection
process is the client's business strategy, and not the other way
around."

Center for Open
Software Engineering at NC State Univ. "performs basic research,
education, and outreach to enable software technology gains and to bridge the
gap between the state-of-the art and the state-of-the-practice of commercial
software engineering."